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Topic: Anti-virus

I know there is a post floating around out there with this topic but I cant find it..

so, my laptop's anti-virus protection is about to expire and I was wondering what you all recommend in free Anti-virus programs? I have tried AVG before but it seemed to block alot of safe things and I had trouble with my DSL connection..

any suggestions ? and why you like what you chose ? or why you didnt like what you chose ?

Re: Anti-virus

They both have free versions, they stay up to date, you can configure a bunch of different things on them (scheduled updates & scans, option for IE protection, live virus scanning) that can be turned on or off. Between the 2 I haven't had any problems that I can remember recently.

Ad-Aware is fairly easy to use. Spybot takes a bit longer, but that's the one that does the extra IE and live scanning. Be prepared for them to take a fair bit of time on first time installation, updating, and scanning. Like 2 hours between them. But once you get the baseline set, set your options, it's mostly fire and forget.